When the Lights Went Out

[rrhill]

Celebrate the light!

In your situation Buckeye, I would play with all my electrical devices as if they were Santa's gift.

You don't know what you have, until you miss it. :- )

 

[Buckeye1]

In your situation Buckeye, I would play with all my electrical devices as if they were Santa's gift.

You don't know what you have, until you miss it. :- )

How true, Robert. Thanks for all of the great pictures.

 

[cumrag27]

Kiss my Grits!!! Glory Alleluia!!! The meter is turning again!!!

I HAVE POWER.....I HAVE POWER.....I HAVE POWER

Thank you, God.

And thank all of you guys and gals for all the encouraging words. I love you all.

Dearest and perhaps now only slightly marginally cooler Robb,

Assuming the power is still on, I am so very happy for you reading this finally! It takes so very long for both your house and you to fully recover from the oppressive heat. Just in time to "Declare your Independence", only this time it is from the overwhelming heat!

What wonderful, wonderful good news, dearest Robb! Rest up first and breath a little easier, now that both your time for recovering and your A/C's cooling capacity are finally free to do their important jobs! Through all of this ordeal, I want to commend you for your remaining positive through it all. Again I say, what "strength of character" you must have! I admire you so very much!

When you have time, please tell us how things are going, now that the power has been restored!

Sincerely,



Stimpy

 

[DrabBoiz]

Hey all,
I am now 92 hours into this massive power outage. I was watching the coverage on TV this morning and found out it covers states from Ohio to Maryland. Six deaths have been recorded so far. I didn't realize it was that huge.
A ray of hope for me....they are saying now that most Ohio residents should have power restored by the end of July 4. From their lips to God's ears.
My housekeeper was able to find a little store about a mile from here with power and restocked my pantry. It is called WALMART! God, don't those people ever close. Every home surrounding Walmart is without electricity and Walmart's was not off for one minute. I guess that is a blessing this time. Anyway, she got the important things such as potato chips, cookies, Coke (not that kind of coke, Stimpy), candy bars, and Popcicles. Oh yes, she also got a lot of lunch meat, cheese, bread, and lettuce for sandwiches, but I probably won't need this sandwich crap....I think the good stuff will last until the end of this outage.
So that is where we are now. Should be just a bad memory hopefully in less than 36 hours. Hope so anyway....that's when I will have to switch to the sandwiches.

My step-mom lives in Columbus; she had her power turned back on yesterday. Then, the same day the power came back on, her central a/c went out! Bless her heart, can't win for losing. I say move away from hot and sweaty Ohio! Good luck to you and everyone having to go through this terrible disaster.

 

[joninliverton]

I'm glad you've got your mains back on however, you were more fortunate than some as you did have a generator. Of course, if you ran out of fuel for the genny then you could have used your four candles.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCbvCRkl_4U

 

[lovelumps]

I'm glad you've got your mains back on however, you were more fortunate than some as you did have a generator. Of course, if you ran out of fuel for the genny then you could have used your four candles.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCbvCRkl_4U

Ha ha ha ha!!!! Awesome

 

[lovelumps]

I HAVE POWER.....I HAVE POWER.....I HAVE POWER

Yayyyyyyyy!!!!!

 

[Buckeye1]

Dearest and perhaps now only slightly marginally cooler Robb,

Assuming the power is still on, I am so very happy for you reading this finally! It takes so very long for both your house and you to fully recover from the oppressive heat. Just in time to "Declare your Independence", only this time it is from the overwhelming heat!

What wonderful, wonderful good news, dearest Robb! Rest up first and breath a little easier, now that both your time for recovering and your A/C's cooling capacity are finally free to do their important jobs! Through all of this ordeal, I want to commend you for your remaining positive through it all. Again I say, what "strength of character" you must have! I admire you so very much!

When you have time, please tell us how things are going, now that the power has been restored!

Sincerely,



Stimpy

Thanks, Stimpy. It is so great to be a "cool" dude again. I had not touched the thermostat since loosing power, so it was set exactly as it was before. When the power came back on I actually got too cold and had to turn it down (or up, whatever). I guess my body had gotten used to the heat. All is fine now.

Thank you for your kind words of encouragement through this whole thing. You guys and gals (you're one of the guys....I think?) ROCK!!!!

 

[Buckeye1]

My step-mom lives in Columbus; she had her power turned back on yesterday. Then, the same day the power came back on, her central a/c went out! Bless her heart, can't win for losing. I say move away from hot and sweaty Ohio! Good luck to you and everyone having to go through this terrible disaster.

Moving away would seem like a good solution to the problem, but where to move? With temperatures over 100 in over half the country, there seems no place to run. Maybe Alaska?

Hope your step-mom is ok. I feel for the people still having heat related problems in a much different way than before. My thoughts and prayers go out to them all.

Thanks for your post, DraBoiz and your kind words.

 

[Buckeye1]

I'm glad you've got your mains back on however, you were more fortunate than some as you did have a generator. Of course, if you ran out of fuel for the genny then you could have used your four candles.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCbvCRkl_4U

That's good, Jon. I enjoyed that very much.

Thanks.

 

[Buckeye1]

Yayyyyyyyy!!!!!

Thank you, Lovelumps. Glad to have you as my new friend. Love you, dear.

 

[joninliverton]

As I type this post, the british summer continues to be a washout. It is 815 and the sky is black, rain is pelting down and there is thunder and fork lightning.

 

[lovelumps]

Thank you, Lovelumps. Glad to have you as my new friend. Love you, dear.

 

[lovelumps]

As I type this post, the british summer continues to be a washout. It is 815 and the sky is black, rain is pelting down and there is thunder and fork lightning.

I wish our typical monsoon weather would start. It's so damn dry here! I would love a good washout! Tradesies?

 

[Beth]

As I type this post, the british summer continues to be a washout. It is 815 and the sky is black, rain is pelting down and there is thunder and fork lightning.

You ought to be in Texas! It's 108 in the shade, no rain in sight! But there is one comfort Jon, when I think of you at least I know someone is getting "forked!"

 

[rrhill]

It's raining again

The weather in Holland resembles the wet English climate. And give me rain, rather than a 108 Fahrenheit (+40 Celsius)

Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXP4zkr8GIo

 

[joninliverton]

My mother and I planted lots of flowers in the garden last weekend. Now they're all fucked up and if we don't get some sun pretty soon they will be in the bin.

Definitely swapsies LL x

 

[lovelumps]

My mother and I planted lots of flowers in the garden last weekend. Now they're all fucked up and if we don't get some sun pretty soon they will be in the bin.

Definitely swapsies LL x

I hate it when that happens. Late this spring we had a huge hail storm. It pummeled our garden. We lost several cucumber plants, the tender seedlings of pepper plants, onions and carrots, and all the flowers that were blooming were deflowered. We were lucky, actually, compared to some who had damage to their cars. Lots of our neighbors had new roofs installed shortly after, too.

Right now, we are having a thunder storm. It's actually raining!!! I'm so excited!

 

[Buckeye1]

I hate it when that happens. Late this spring we had a huge hail storm. It pummeled our garden. We lost several cucumber plants, the tender seedlings of pepper plants, onions and carrots, and all the flowers that were blooming were deflowered. We were lucky, actually, compared to some who had damage to their cars. Lots of our neighbors had new roofs installed shortly after, too.

Right now, we are having a thunder storm. It's actually raining!!! I'm so excited!

Rain in Colorado....great news to the firefighters, I'm sure. Lightning, not so good.

 

[lovelumps]

Rain in Colorado....great news to the firefighters, I'm sure. Lightning, not so good.

We've gotten 1/4 inch so far here in the Metro area. Hope it keeps raining consistently for a while longer. Crossing fingers and toes!